Episode 526: Why can't I get promoted so quickly after my last promotion and I got hired as a software engineer but ended up doing ops
Soft Skills Engineering

Episode 526: Why can't I get promoted so quickly after my last promotion and I got hired as a software engineer but ended up doing ops

B1IntermediateAugust 17, 202632 min

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hi Dave & Jamison! I’ve been listening for almost a year now and have worked through nearly your entire back catalog in reverse. The podcast has genuinely helped me become a better engineer, so thank you! I’m two years into my software engineer career at a large infrastructure company. I was promoted to SWE II last year, and this year my manager told me she felt my work was promotion-worthy, but because I’d just been promoted and she had others on the team to consid...

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It takes more than creating a zero-day exploit to hack your sandbox and cheat on an AI benchmark to be a great engineer. This is Soft Skills Engineering, Episode 526. I'm your host, Dave Smith.

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I'm your host, Jameson Dance. Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice podcast for software engineers about all the non-technical stuff that go into defeating benchmarking tools. I'm astonished how much this is playing out like all the people who said, beware

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of AI taking over the world thought it would play out. I have long dismissed them. And maybe when I'm like in the paperclip processing plant, getting my body reduced to component Adams, I'll say, you know what?

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